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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, Williams Class B, Type 4. The mount is an incomplete pentagonal shape with an inturned lip at the bottom. There are two rivet holes in the lip, and one in the centre towards the bottom of the face. The face is decorated with deeply incised channels depicting a debased motif. Starting in the centre at the bottom there is a trunk-like motif which splits into two branches half way up and curve to meet the edges of the mount. From the centre of the split extends another thinner trunk which reaches the top of the mount. The two triangular cells located to either side of the central trunk are both decorated with two small incised crescents at the lower angle. In the lower left and right hand corner of the mount either side of the main trunk is a sub-oval cell. Both cells contain a smaller oval 'eye'. In profile the base of the trunk is extended forward thus resembling a nose. The mount has an even mid-green patina and no traces of niello or other filling within the channels. Cf. WMID-681361 on this database
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